Freelancing is getting more and more lucrative everyday with some freelance workers raking more than $100 hourly. According to Stephanie Kasriel, the CEO of Upwork, there has been a great increase in the large-scale use of freelance talent by fortune 500 companies and businesses are becoming reliant on freelance specialists. And why do you think this is happening? Because those freelance specialists can provide expertise that these businesses need and they proactively upgrade their skills.

And this is why I've provided this extensive list of skills that are on the list of fastest growing, highest paying and high in-demand skills obtained from research on online freelancing market sites like Upwork and Fiverr. Read through the list, choose a skill, make plans to learn it, take action by learning it and perfect your skill till you become an expert at it.

HIGHEST PAYING AND BEST SELLING FREELANCE SKILLS #1: LOGO DESIGN
Logo design is a hot selling item at the moment especially on Fiverr and all you need to do logo design is Creativity, knowledge of graphics software like photoshop, illustrator or Corel draw and more creativity. Of all the sub-skills under the Graphic Design Skill, logo design requires lots of creativity because your logo designs must create a symbolic image that represents your clients, their interests, and their businesses' customers. It's a skill that you can get customers for both online and offline but your work has to speak for you.

HIGHEST PAYING AND BEST SELLING FREELANCE SKILLS #2: BUSINESS CARD DESIGN
Like Logo design, Business card design is also a subskill under Graphic design. It's also a high paying skill too and it even requires less creativity than Logo design and adequate knowledge and experience using graphical software. All you need to do is create a business card for people to give customers and potential customers containing their personal and official information.

HIGHEST PAYING AND BEST SELLING FREELANCE SKILLS #3: FLYER, POSTERS AND BANNER ADS DESIGNS
You'll be surprised at how much money these designs rake for offline and online freelancers. This skill involves creating flyers, posters and banner ads for events, businesses, etc. Do you know how many events and businesses exist on campuses all over the world? Hundreds. Maybe thousands. Even if you're not an online savvy person, you can still make a lot of money offline on your campus using this skill.

HIGHEST PAYING AND BEST SELLING FREELANCE SKILLS #4: INFOGRAPHICS DESIGN
Infographics design is another skill that is trending these days, it involves the design of infographics which are a mix of design, writing, and analysis that take deep data and present it in visual shorthand. It helps to communicate complex data in a visual format.
Infographics design is a popular skill today because it is easily scanned and viewed, it creates brand awareness and increases web traffic.

HIGHEST PAYING AND BEST SELLING FREELANCE SKILLS #5: OTHER GRAPHIC DESIGN SKILLS such as drawing cartoons, creating vectors

HIGHEST PAYING AND BEST SELLING FREELANCE SKILLS #6: VIDEO CREATION
Like Graphic Design, it's a skill that has many sub-skills like Video Editing (which ranked #16 on Upwork's fastest growing skills list), creating whiteboard animation videos and many others. Video creation sub-skills such as Video editing, etc are in high demand especially in 2017 when 74 percent of internet traffic was video-related.

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